Proverbs and old sayings Amerindian, page 6

280 proverbs and old sayings amerindian

It is a greater gift to give than to receive.

Proverbs and old sayings Amerindian about gifts

Follow the river and you will get to the sea.

Proverbs and old sayings Amerindian

The heart at rest sees a feast in everything.

Proverbs and old sayings Amerindian about feast, rest, heart

Poverty makes thieves, like love makes poets.

Proverbs and old sayings Amerindian about poets, thieves, poverty, love

A lie has no author, nor a liar a conscience.

Proverbs and old sayings Amerindian about conscience, lie

A man laughs at others and weeps for himself.

Proverbs and old sayings Amerindian about man

You can only lean against that which resists.

Proverbs and old sayings Amerindian

You must answer the devil in his own language.

Proverbs and old sayings Amerindian about language, devil

It is love that makes the impossible possible.

Proverbs and old sayings Amerindian about impossible, love

There is enmity between to dig and to let dig.

Proverbs and old sayings Amerindian

A meal without flesh is like feeding on grass.

Proverbs and old sayings Amerindian

The sandal tree perfumes the axe that fells it.

Proverbs and old sayings Amerindian

A fight in your neighbor's house is refreshing.

Proverbs and old sayings Amerindian about fight, home, house

A viper without fangs is like a piece of rope.

Proverbs and old sayings Amerindian

Theologians, dogs, and singers always disagree.

Proverbs and old sayings Amerindian

If you can't give any sugar then speak sweetly.

Proverbs and old sayings Amerindian

Hypocrisy is a homage that vice pays to virtue.

Proverbs and old sayings Amerindian about hypocrisy, vice, virtue

Never strike your wife, not even with a flower.

Proverbs and old sayings Amerindian about garden, wife

The worst kind of poverty is to have many debts.

Proverbs and old sayings Amerindian about poverty

Austerity is an ornament, humility is honorable.

Proverbs and old sayings Amerindian about humility